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NASA Career Development Program
NASA internships for high school (grades 9–12) and college-level students leverage NASA’s unique missions and programs to enhance and increase the capability, diversity, and size of the nation’s future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.
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Game Balancing Global Water Resources
Aquation: The Freshwater Access Game is a free iOS, Android, and web game offered by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Designed for students in upper elementary or middle school, the game teaches how clean water is distributed and what can be done to balance global water resources.
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Hip-Hop Music That Teaches Computer Science
CodeScty is an interactive learning experience designed to introduce young people to computational thinking and coding concepts through a cultural lens that they are familiar with. CodeScty’s tech-forward music education platform includes original hip-hop music, videos , and experiential learning activities to teach computer science principles and computational thinking to seventh- and eighth-grade students who are underrepresented in STE(A)M.
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